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The Daily Review (sometimes referred to as The Review) is a daily broadsheet newspaper, serving Bradford and Sullivan Counties of Pennsylvania.  Its main office is in Towanda, Pennsylvania with branch offices in Troy and Sayre. It is owned by Sample News Group of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.

The Review publishes a newspaper on Saturday mornings, called The Weekend Review.

History
The Daily Review was established in 1879.  The Towanda Printing Company, a company formed for the sole purpose of purchasing The Review, purchased in it 1903.  In 1977, Times-Shamrock Communications purchased the Towanda Printing Company, thereby purchasing The Daily Review. On October 1, 2015, Times-Shamrock Communications sold its Towanda Printing Company segment, including The Daily Review, to Sample News Group.

From 1987 to 2019, The Daily Review published The Sunday Review.  With The Sunday Review, The Daily Review is Bradford County's only newspaper that publishes six days a week, with a "Weekend Edition" delivered on Saturday mornings.

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Haryana man 'fakes' Everest summit claim, nominated for prestigious award
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Published: 28 Aug 2020 5:57 AM GMT
Narender Singh Yadav, a mountaineer and fitness instructor hailing from Rewari in Haryana, is set to be awarded with the prestigious Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award for apparently climbing the world's highest peak, Mt. Everest in 2016 as a 21-year-old. The youngest mountaineer of Haryana is all set to receive the award on 29th August 2020 from the President of India. However, as per reports, his claim of having reached the summit is false according to his expedition leader.
Naba Kumar Phukon, who was the leader of the 14-member group, reached the summit of Everest on the morning of 20 May 2016, allegedly along with Yadav. However, Phukon denied the claim saying that he had to be rescued.
Phukon was quoted saying by a daily, "Yadav's summit claim was false and he photoshopped his picture on top of Everest to validate his claim. I was the leader of the expedition and he was part of the team. He never made the summit. He had frostbite and he, along with another mountaineer had to be rescued.
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According to another report, the alleged summit success has also been denied by the seven-times Everest summiter Lakpa Sherpa, who was a member of the Sherpa rescue team above the South Col at that time. Apparently, Narender did not get further than to the so-called "Balcony" at about 8,400 meters.
Jamlin Tenzing Norgay, Tenzing Norgay's son, is furious at the whole incident and is enraged that an award named after his father is being given to someone who faked his summit claim. He has written to Indian Mountaineering Federation (IMF) — the country's apex body for mountaineering and allied sport — to inspect the matter.
"The nation's highest award is being bestowed upon Yadav, whose Everest accomplishments are questionable," Jamlin told the daily.
In 2016 itself, an Indian couple was convicted of fraudulently obtaining an Everest certificate by means of a fake summit photo. They were later also banned from coming to Nepal for mountaineering for ten years.

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Engagement Lab Leading Cross-College Collaboration to Battle Climate Change
The Emerson Engagement Lab is working with colleges and universities throughout the Boston area to energize students and communities around addressing climate change.
Faculty from Emerson, Harvard, Northeastern, MIT, Wheelock, and Boston Architectural College (BAC)—all members of the Boston Civic Media initiative run out of the Engagement Lab—are piloting a cross-campus curriculum this fall that will use classroom projects and partnerships with local nonprofits to come at the problem from various angles.
"We're trying to move the conversation forward around civic media in…undergraduate education…by showing there is a very specific type of media practice…that is intended to bring people together on civic issues for the common good," said Gabe Mugar, research associate at the Engagement Lab.
Depending on their area of expertise, faculty and their students will attack the problem from an academic, environmental justice, scientific, or data and research perspective.
At Emerson, Professor Eric Gordon, director of the Engagement Lab, will teach a class on Games and Social Change as it pertains to climate. Assistant Professor Jon Honea will partner with the Mystic River Watershed Association for his course, Science in Translation, about interpreting and communication scientific information. BAC is teaching a course in design as a tool for social change; Northeastern is offering Climate Change and Society; and Harvard will present a lecture series, Arts for Global Health.
In the spring, Associate Professor Paul Mihailidis will teach Persistence in Civic Media Action, Associate Professor Wyatt Oswald will offer a course on Communicating Climate Change, and a faculty member from MIT will teach Data Storytelling.
"There are a variety of different lenses on issues, but I think we're hoping to find some shared common ground," said Assistant Professor of Journalism Catherine D'Ignazio, who will be participating through her data visualization course this semester.
The consortium is also hoping to get students at the undergraduate level thinking about climate change beyond the abstract, said Mugar.
Part of that will come from partnerships with nonprofits and non-governmental organizations that are already working on the ground to address the science and social ramifications of climate change. Mugar was charged with matching faculty who wanted a community partner.
Susan Jane, director of communications and the media literacy program at Wheelock College, learned last week that her Media as a Tool for Social Change class would work with LivableStreets Alliance, a Boston-based organization that advocates for more sustainable, equitable, and safe transportation options. Her students will help create a public information campaign for LivableStreets' mission using civic media.
Jane admits she is no climate change expert, but because her students are interested in "making media for the common good," and Wheelock's mission is to improve the lives of families, the curriculum is right in her wheelhouse.
But beyond what her students will get from the class, the Boston Civic Media group has been invaluable in her professional development, Jane said. Wheelock is a small institution, and Jane is one of two people in her department, so it can be challenging to get new information.
"Every time I engage with a cohort, I learn a ton about what's going on out there, and it really makes me feel more connected to what's happening," Jane said. "It shows me I'm not alone in this work."
The focus this first year is building a strong stable of courses that does examine ways climate change can be addressed at the city level, but doesn't overwhelm faculty who are already over-committed in many cases, D'Ignazio said.
Students are able to take courses at other institutions in the cross-campus curriculum if they're so inclined, and they'll interact with their counterparts at other schools through an end-of-semester showcase of work from across the consortium.
But if the program is successful, it could lead to a whole new level of engagement across the city.
"One of the things we aspire to if the pilot works out and we can keep the program going [is] we can really develop a shared laboratory," D'Ignazio said. "What if a student could do a kind of climate change minor where they're taking a bunch of classes at different institutions and can really embed themselves in the community?"
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Mafia II Kick In The Head Trailer
Mafia II looks to be the industry's most compelling action crime game to date. Players take control of Vito Scaletta, who is making a name for himself on the streets of Empire Bay. He's someone who can be trusted to get a job done. Together with his buddy Joe, he is working to prove himself to the Mafia quickly escalating up the family ladder with crimes of larger reward, status and consequences… the life as a wise guy isn't quite as untouchable as it seems.
Mafia II Joe Adventures DLC
2K Games announced today that Joe's Adventures, the third action-infused downloadable add-on pack for the epic crime-action game, Mafia II, is now available for download worldwide from the PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows PC.
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Mafia II Review
Mafia II's exciting action and uncompromising mob story make for an impressive and violent adventure.
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Mafia II Demo coming in August 10
2K Games announced today that its upcoming epic action crime game, Mafia II, will have a downloadable demo available worldwide on August 10 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 vand Windows PC.
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Mafia II Gameplay Trailer
Do not miss this exclusive gameplay trailer from Mafia II. The sequel to Mafia immerses players once again in the late 1940s mob underworld.
Behind the Scenes: The World of Mafia II
Step behind the scenes with the developer of Mafia II for an inside look at Empire Bay and its inhabitants. See how the world of Mafia II is brought to life through architecture, music, and subtle period details.
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Mafia II will be available in North America on August 24, 2010 and internationally on August 27, 2010 for the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and Windows PC.
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Mafia II Nvidia PhysX Trailer
2K producer Denby Grace said during the demonstrations of the new physics effects, the very first PC version of Mafia II,that the game supports hardware PhysX on NVIDIA graphics cards, so some particle effects will be calculated through the PhysX.
Mafia II Story and Characters Trailer
This is the first of many developer diary videos from Mafia II. t Mafia II will be available in North America on August 24, 2010 and internationally on August 27, 2010 for the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and Windows PC.
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August 24 2010 US Street Date for Mafia II
2K Games announced today that Mafia II will be available in North America on August 24, 2010 and internationally on August 27, 2010 for the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and Windows PC.
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Capa, Robert
Photojournalist Robert Capa became known as one of the greatest war photographers of the 20th century and founder of the world-famous photo agency, Magnum.
Profession: Photojournalist
Country of Origin: Hungary
Country of Asylum: Germany
Country of Transit: France
Date of birth: 22 October 1913
Born Endre Erno Friedmann, he fled from his native Hungary at the age of 17, after being branded as a subversive for demonstrating against the fascist regime of Admiral Mikols Horthy. He moved to Berlin with the intention of studying journalism. To support himself, he began working as a darkroom assistant for a well-known photojournalist. For his first shoot, he was sent to Denmark to cover a talk by Leon Trotsky. Two years later he fled Germany as Hitler came to power. The family and friends Capa left behind in Hungary died in Nazi concentration camps.
In Paris, where he settled, Capa met and fell in love with German-born photojournalist Greta Pohorylle, also a Jewish refugee. It was she who persuaded him to change his name to Capa, while she took the name Greta Taro. The two became famous for their coverage of the Spanish Civil War from the Loyalist side.
By the age of 25, Capa was already hailed as the world's greatest war photographer. His photographs portrayed the full spectrum of the emotions of war – from the elation of Franco's troops entering Madrid in 1936, to long columns of defeated forces walking into exile in France, and the dejection of Spaniards behind chain-link fences in refugee camps in 1939.
In July 1937, his wife was killed in a car accident. Some say Capa never got over it, soothing his pain by gambling and drinking, mixing with celebrities and living dangerously. One of his mottoes was: "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough".
Yet his brother Cornell noted: "Bob was actually a peace photographer. His kind of photography was not war, but the ordinary people it involves."
Capa recorded people's attempts to retain a sense of normality during war, often focusing on what happened off the battlefield. His new perspective was aided by the introduction of the lightweight Leica camera.
He went on to cover World War II, capturing on film the allied victories in North Africa, Sicily and Normandy. Parachuting with the Americans into Germany, he chronicled the fall of Leipzig, Nuremberg and Berlin. At the end of the war, he joked about having business cards printed that read: Robert Capa, War Photographer, Unemployed.
In fact, his career entered a new phase. In 1945 he met Swedish film star Ingrid Bergman and started a two-year relationship that brought him into Hollywood circles. During this time he made famous portraits of Gary Cooper and Gene Kelly, and made friends such as Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, John Huston and Truman Capote.
In 1947 Capa co-founded the Magnum photo agency, together with Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour and others. But he did not stop covering conflicts. He died in 1954 after stepping on a land mine while reporting on the French Indochina war.


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Obscure offering from blues beacon that shines a warm light many years down the line.
There's a strange misconception about this album placing it at the onset of the legendary artist's posthumous discography, while actually it was among the last Bloomfield records released while he was still alive – yet laid down earlier, in the '70s, with one of the most sympathetic line-ups Michael had ever had. A friendly atmosphere and soulful slant make "Living In The Fast Lane" loom larger than a mere footnote in his oeuvre, though, and display the immense integrity, turning a ragtag array of tracks into consistent experience as a result, despite a variety of vocals involved in bringing those pieces to the listener. In layman's terms, the platter is tasty.
What may seem like a brass-oiled, smooth ride from unmistakably Chicagoan, urban vibe of "Sammy Knows How To Party" and alternative opener "Maudie" – attached to this reissue as shuffling bonus – to the transparent "The Dizz Rag" which is the epitome of the master's romantic side, will pan out enjoyably bumpy, especially on the frisky "Roots" whose funky tribalism would be driven to the Holy Mothership delirium by several singers. Bloomfield's six strings sting and sparkle in equal measure, whereas his mastery of organ throws additional swirl around playful piano on many a number and stresses the Motown-esque mellifluousness of "Shine On Love" that is rendered irresistible thanks to writer Roger Troy's voice and Michael's filigree twang.
He's catching one's ears with the slider-polished "Big C Blues" and an exquisite acoustic romp through "Watkin's Rag" – both done in a solo mode – but the sexed-up reggae which "Andy's Bad" is bubbling with has a suggestively electric allure. There's also spiritual call-and-response of "When I Get Home" with Bloomfield's lace delicately wrapped around the choir phrases before Michael's own pipes hand "Used To It" to an eager congregation, so escaping this album doesn't feel a polite option. It's as exciting as its title suggests and, reissued after years of being overlooked, can proudly enrich the legend's legacy.


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(2) Sale or supply of liquor must be ancillary to purpose of function The authorisation conferred by a limited licence does not apply unless the sale or supply of liquor at any function held under the licence is ancillary to the purpose for which the function is held.
(3) Functions required to be approved by Authority Except in the case of functions referred to in subsection (5) or (6), liquor may only be sold or supplied under a limited licence at a function that has been approved by the Authority. If any such approved function is postponed, the approval by the Authority extends to the day to which the function is postponed.
(4) Maximum number of approved functions per year The number of functions that may be approved in relation to a limited licence is not to exceed 52 per year (or such other number as the Authority considers appropriate in any particular case). This subsection does not apply in relation to a function referred to in subsection (5) or (6).
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The Still Secret Story of Trump at Wharton
Poor University of Pennsylvania. One of America's great universities, with one of America's great business schools in Wharton, finally got a U.S. president. The bad news is that it is Donald Trump, who spent two years at Wharton as a transfer from Fordham.
Normally—that is, when there was a normal—Penn would be proudly crowing about finally matching other Ivy League schools that can claim such an honor, e.g., seven presidents have Harvard degrees. Instead, Penn has hunkered down, maintaining total silence about Trump's time at Wharton, his admission, his grades, etc. Almost all the information we have is from Trump himself, most of which has been proven false.
Which leaves Americans, journalist and interested alums gathering crumbs of information. The latest is in the Washington Post: Trump has referred to his Wharton degree as 'super genius stuff.' An admissions officer recalls it differently.
A few of the questions that still have no definitive answer:
How did Trump get into Wharton?
At the time he transferred from Fordham to Wharton, it wasn't nearly as hard to get in as it is now—about a 40% admission rate then, only 7% today. Even with that, his rich father Fred went along on the interview trip, and we don't know whether any financial incentives changed hands.
How well did Trump do at Wharton?
Hard to tell without grades or many anecdotes, but probably average. It appears that he did pay close attention in real estate class, but was known never to read books. As for his claim that he graduated first in his class:
Trump's name was not among the top honorees at his commencement. Nor was he on the dean's list his senior year, meaning he was not among the top 56 students in his graduating class of 366. All that is known for certain is that Trump received at least a 2.0 average, or C, enabling him to graduate.
Does any of this matter?
As usual, Trump simultaneously lies about his achievements and hides the facts. So in one sense this is no different than all his other duplicitous concealments. Still, there are thousands and thousands of people who work really hard to genuinely achieve educational excellence, at Penn and at so many other colleges. It is sad to say that the loudest college graduate in the world isn't one of those.
Veterans Studies as an Academic Discipline
This began with a simple thought: The use of veterans as a political prop is about as immoral as the failure as a nation to fully and properly honor their service beyond politically expedient lip-service.
I wondered just how seriously we take veterans, and whether they have yet received the same sort of academic attention that practically every other cultural and social cohort has. The answer is that it is just starting, and that is a good thing.
Travis L. Martin has helped pioneer the program:
My goal is to inform people of the importance and feasibility of establishing "Veterans Studies" as an academic discipline. Below you will hear my story, as well as those of students I've taught in Eastern Kentucky University's Veterans Studies Program. I was a student veteran when I approached faculty and administrators with the idea. And it will take that kind of grass roots activism to get Veterans Studies established as a discipline at institutions across the country….
Why do we need Veterans Studies programs? Well, in 1947, veterans comprised up to 49% of all college students. Professors from that era will tell you stories of makeshift camps and barracks built to accommodate them. In the wake of WW2, the option to pursue higher education helped America avoid a catastrophic influx of unemployed veterans into the job market. School became synonymous with service. However, a rift formed between the military and academia when the anti-war movement found a home on college campuses during the Vietnam War. While veterans have come a long way since then, those returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan still deal with many of the same stereotypes….
The first Women's Studies program was founded in 1970 at San Diego State. This program sought to undo the stereotypes that held back the advancement of women in society for centuries. Today, there are more than 900 Women's and Gender Studies programs throughout the world. Likewise, the first program to examine the culture of African Americans originated at San Francisco State in 1968. Today, there are more than 300 programs. Similar stories can be found about programs ranging from Appalachian Studies, to Irish Studies, to Jewish Studies, to programs for about every underrepresented, misunderstood population on the globe. Why are veterans excluded from these initiatives?
This problem is one driven by too much lip-service and not enough action. In 2011, $9.9 billion had already been spent on tuition assistance. Student veterans are big business. While this money is certainly a welcome relief for those institutions of higher learning struggling with low enrollments and government budget cuts, those benefiting do not seem concerned with investing it in long-term initiatives designed to transform the societies in which their veteran graduates live and work….
Veterans Studies is not just about teaching veterans. It is about bringing non-veterans and veterans together at a common center rooted in scholarship. Non-veteran students take my courses to complete "diversity of experience" credits and, if they choose, go on to earn a minor or certificate in a field that prepares them for work within military and veteran communities….
That both veterans and non-veterans take the course is vital. The two groups learn to communicate by framing veteran experience in three key ways: the institutional, cultural, and relational dimensions of Veterans Studies. The institutional portion of the course teaches the students how the different branches function as a hierarchy and together—in the past as well as the present—to keep America safe. The cultural dimension exposes them to works of literature, films, and the typical ways in which veterans are depicted by the media. Finally, in the last portion of the course, students learn about how veterans assimilate into society after taking off the uniform….
Veterans Studies, as it exists in the courses I've designed, integrates oral, written, and visual communications skills in projects requiring critical inquiry and research. Students, taking Veterans Studies courses for a variety of professional and personal reasons, must cross disciplinary lines in order to make the first forays into this field. Further, group work, specifically, the kind of group work that asks veteran and non-veteran students to collaborate and produce work relevant to all parties, is foundational in both composition and the future of Veterans Studies….
Schools benefiting financially from the sacrifices of service men and women have a responsibility to create veteran-friendly environments and produce graduates capable of interacting respectfully and knowledgeable about veterans issues in the workplace and their day-to-day lives. The time has come for Veterans Studies Programs to claim their rightful places within the walls of academia.
What College Rankings Miss: The Teachers Who Hand You a Key
The 2018 U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges rankings are out, just one of many annual higher education lists that have flourished like flowers—or weeds.
Knowing where a college program ranks can be merely interesting or practically important, depending on why you're looking.
If you're a student you want to know where to get the best education. And if you're looking to get a job or improve the one you have, where you got your degree can be important to prospective employers who may read these rankings too.
Regarding professional programs, I admit to a superficial interest in these rankings when I choose a professional, particularly in medicine, and particularly in specialties. But I also admit that the best general practitioner I've ever known came from a reputable but not top-tier medical school. Which is maybe what made him so great, because his education and years of practice never made him full of himself. It just made him full of good medicine and full of his patients, one by one, one to one.
As for law, every lawyer will admit, even if he or she went to one of "those" law schools, that there is far from a consistent correlation between attending one of "those" schools and being a good or great lawyer (or a good or great person). Which is not to say that every law school can do the job well, or at all. But the best lawyers, like the best doctors, don't have to come from the top of these rankings.
Business may be the best case of this. Check out the educational background of the most successful CEOs and entrepreneurs. Sure there are your Harvard MBAs and the like among them. But there are also all kinds of undergraduate degrees from all kinds of colleges, not all of those even in business. (Some college dropouts too.)
More than ever, where resumes and CVs are first vetted by overburdened reviewers and even by machine "intelligence", the right school apparently equals the right stuff—hiring-wise if not life-wise.
Experience says otherwise. Looking back on education, not just college or law school, but even back to high school and further, it was the teachers. And not just all of them, but the singular ones (the rare ones) who generously gave me a key. The possibilities are so many, as are the obstructions—educational, professional, personal—that the teachers who really and deeply help are the ones who make the difference. No matter what the school.
If you're looking for that in the rankings, you may be looking in the wrong place.
American Dislike of Studying History and Government Comes to Haunt Us
I have loved reading about American history and government since, well, since I have been reading. I was an officer in our high school Future Voters of America club, and I was a delegate to a mock presidential convention. A nerd then, and maybe still.
That is not typical for a large number of Americans, who seem disinclined to read much (and that is read, not just listen or watch) about these subjects. Partly that is because these subjects are usually required in school and are not always very well taught, with all due respect to those who have the sometimes thankless job of teaching.
My high school American History teacher was also our basketball coach, a decently smart and affable guy who happened to have been given one of the all-time exciting American History textbooks to teach from: The American Pageant, which thanks to the unique approach of its original author, historian Thomas A. Bailey, remains in print in its 16th edition. It was, and hopefully still is, one of the most fun reads of any textbook on any subject. Yes, I said "fun." Without speaking for my classmates, I was excited to read each chapter.
I don't believe all Americans think of learning about history and government as fun. More like work, maybe hard and distasteful and avoidable work. Except that avoiding knowing history and government means that when, as can happen, things get way out of whack, you won't recognize what is happening, or recognize that as a historical matter, the consequences may be unfortunate, if not dire.
As can happen, things may get way out of whack, and they have. Maybe those who find learning about American history and government useless might squeeze it into their busy schedules. Particularly if they love America, because as we know, true love means learning about the one you love.
The Weird Randomness of Life
I went to the gym this morning for my regular morning workout. The TV was on, but nobody was there. I saw that the remote control was gone. I climbed on a chair, pushed the power button and turned the TV off.
On further search for the remote, I discovered a handbag on the seat of stationery bike. I didn't want to pry, but I peeked in to see if the remote had ended up there. Instead, I saw a copy of The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
Are people still reading The Catcher in the Rye? They should and apparently they are. It is a great and famous novel. Once upon a time controversial, when it was published in 1951, because Salinger included the word "fuck" multiple times.
After this novel, another novel, and a book of stories, Salinger disappeared, like the remote control. He is considered the most reclusive and mysterious of contemporary fiction writers. W.P. Kinsella included a character based on Salinger in his novel Shoeless Joe, which became a character in the movie version Field of Dreams. The character in the movie is played by James Earl Jones, a big black man with a booming voice. Salinger was a white Jewish man, as far as we can tell regular size and regular voice.
In high school, I wrote a book report on The Catcher in the Rye, one that was supposed to be read aloud. The English teacher was one of those young, hip women, so I thought it would be alright. I was a little concerned about some of the quotes, specifically the ones that included the word "fuck." In that class was a girl who was a friend, not a girlfriend, who read it before class and urged me to read it just as it was. She was a popular and cool girl, but mostly I wanted to seem cool to her because she was pretty and had really big breasts.
So I read the report out loud. This is one of the passages I read. The confused and questioning adolescent Holden Caulfield says:
I went down by a different staircase, and I saw another "Fuck you" on the wall. I tried to rub it off with my hand again, but this one was scratched on, with a knife or something. It wouldn't come off. It's hopeless, anyway. If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.
I wasn't particularly confused, but I was punished. Someone in the class took offense and told the principal. I was called down to his office, and despite his liking me a lot and despite my record as a star student, he believed some sort of sanction for my indiscretion was necessary. The sentence was that my entry into the National Honor Society was to be delayed one year.
If I had it to do all over again, I would know that none of this mattered. I read the book, still love it, and maybe my book report led someone else to read it. If I was somebody else, then or now, I might have said something to the principal that was clever and super-meta, such as "Go fuck yourself." I didn't and wouldn't.
On the other hand, if I go down to the gym tomorrow, and still can't find it, I might say to myself—only to myself and not out loud—"Where's the fucking remote?"
Why We Should Teach and Learn Ancient History First
Children in America who attend some sort of religious school, even before going to secular school, may learn some limited sort of ancient history. Ancient in that it concerns purported people and events from millennia ago. Limited in that some number of those people and events, however instructional and enlightening, may be of some historical question.
There is other ancient history worth teaching our kids early, and catching up with ourselves, just in case we missed it in our own education. There are continuous civilizations all around the world that have been ongoing, in the same place, also for millennia.
China, for example. Or India. Or the native populations in the Americas. This is where education should start, before we start talking about admittedly important people arriving on these North American shores and establishing an admittedly important nation just a few centuries ago.
Why? Because it would give us a sense of perspective on what we have, or have not, achieved so far. And because it would give us a missing sense of the scope of history, in that everything comes and goes. Which you could learn from the history of China. Or you could learn from reading the I Ching, the book about things changing, written in China millennia ago. Or if you prefer something more Western and familiar, from reading the Bible itself. A time for every purpose, it says. And so it goes.
"Books Smell Like Old People"
David Denby in the New Yorker asks: Do Teens Read Seriously Anymore?
If reading means books or other extended forms of writing, evidence and anecdote say the answer is no.
Denby doesn't have anything particularly new to say about the big picture and long term consequences of generations who are less interested in books than ever. This is an ongoing conversation that just gets more and more attention as digital demographics continue to roll over us all.
Still, it's worth reading his piece as a reminder and, for some, a wakeup call.
Denby mentions the related ascendance of STEM education:
The Times reported on Monday that at least fifteen state governments were offering some type of bonus or premium for high-demand STEM degrees. "All the people in the world who want to study French literature can do so," Matt Bevin, the governor of Kentucky, said. "They're just not going to be subsidized by the taxpayers like engineers will be, for example." (Governor Bevin, as it turns out, graduated from Washington and Lee with a bachelor's degree in Japanese and East Asian studies. So much for the crippling effects of the humanities.)
Denby also mentions a recent book by media scholar Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age:
Much of their social life, for boys as well as girls, is now conducted on smartphones, where teen-agers don't have to confront one another. The terror of eye contact! Sherry Turkle, in her recent book "Reclaiming Conversation," has written about the loss of self that this avoidance creates and also of the peculiar boredom paradoxically produced by the act of constantly fleeing boredom.
Denby doesn't come off like a snobbishly literate dinosaur. He doesn't over-idealize "the way things were" as being infinitely and generally better, which they weren't. He is just an astute observer making the point that extended discourse, written and read, is an essential part of moving society and civilization along. How we reclaim that, if it is in fact getting lost, is a difficult but worthwhile mission.
One God Two God
Two God
Red God
Blue God
(apologies to Dr. Seuss)
A professor at Wheaton College may be dismissed for saying that Christian and Muslims worship the same God.
There is so much that could be said about this.
About the history of American evangelicalism, of which Wheaton is a part. How it began as an open and activist socially liberal Christian movement and has ended up in some instances a radically conservative and strictly exclusivist movement.
About theology as complex as any machine ever built, and just as incomprehensible to those who are not religion mechanics and engineers. How even though the God of the Jews was absolutely the God of Jesus, and the God of the Jews and Jesus was absolutely the God of Muhammed, that isn't so according to people who may think themselves smarter and more important than Jesus or Muhammed.
The concept of one God was a revolution in civilization. The earlier belief in an entourage of gods, greater and lesser, has been mostly replaced by the one. (Whether that one might be three-in-one goes back to the theology complexities mentioned above, so let's leave that for now.)
It is no wonder that after thousands of years with religion as a standard way of life, more people are rejecting it than ever. Because if there is a God, and if religions have sprung up on his behalf (with or without his blessing), that God and those religions can look spectacularly ridiculous in the eyes of good people who want nothing but good for people. And because if God really cares about all this very human nonsense, a growing number of people want nothing to do with him or his religions. And who can blame them?
If Princeton Expunges Segregationist Woodrow Wilson, Why Not Expunge All Presidential Slave Owners?
Princeton University is considering the demands of activists who want the legacy of Woodrow Wilson expunged from the university.
Woodrow Wilson was President of Princeton, Governor of New Jersey, and President of the United States. He was also a Democratic progressive in many areas. Not as progressive as his presidential opponent in the 1912 presidential election, former President and Progressive Party candidate Teddy Roosevelt. Wilson, for example, was friendly with Wall Street and opposed some financial reforms. (Sound like any current Democratic Party candidate we know?).
Wilson was also a man of his time and place. He was a Southerner and a segregationist, at a time when segregation was legally sanctioned. That isn't an excuse for maintaining and promoting injustice, just a fact. That he might be less enlightened than current leaders by modern standards goes without saying. But given all the rest, it does not seem the stuff of an indictment.
If there is validity to the demands, then there is no principled reason not to expunge the legacy of all slave-owning Presidents from all settings. After all, slavery is undoubtedly a greater transgression than segregation.
Owned slaves while President
Owned slaves but not while President
Let's admit that as national leaders, some of these slave-owning Presidents are more historically benign and popular than others. (We are looking at you, Andrew Jackson.) Even so, if you eliminate the ones whose legacy is now considered shady, you're still left with some pretty worthy and venerated individuals—including, of course, the father of our country.
No one is saying that Woodrow Wilson is a George Washington, a James Madison, or a James Monroe. But if you're going to start making principled distinctions, trade-offs and excuses, it's impossible to know where to begin.
And that is the slippery slope we really don't want to walk near. Which leaves us with the choice of leaving certain appropriately contextualized history behind, and making things better going forward. Or taking down the legacy of all of them, Washington, et al., because we want history to be thoroughly cleansed of its dark stains.
As if, Princeton and its activists. As if.
Not Born Bored
Here we are now
Entertain us
Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit
A study by Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation finds that, among other things, lots of high school students are bored. Suggested solutions included making teachers better and the experience more interesting.
There are some other possibilities, but to consider them we should look beyond high school.
First, people are not born bored. Babies are not bored. Everything is interesting to them.
People do grow up and develop something called boredom, about which we don't spend nearly enough time defining or considering. We just lump it into the avoid-or-eliminate category, and associate it with pain. Fortunately for the suffering bored, at this moment in history we may have the most options for escaping boredom ever.
Pointing to high schoolers or young people in general as the easily bored is unfair to them. Plenty of their elders pursue ways to keep things constantly interesting. Mobile phones at dinner tables are not the purview of those under 21.
There's no doubt that high school is not what it should be, never has been, and deserves attention and improvement. The same goes for the hourly and daily and yearly lives of many people, just like those students stuck being in a place they don't want to be and doing things they don't want to be doing.
One small suggestion: Don't be bored. Put another way, instead of regularly working hard to eliminate boredom, once on a while eliminate boredom as a category of experience. You don't have to think like a baby. But you might discover that seeing everything as interesting, even awesome, can provide some incredibly cheap and available thrills. And while we wait for high school to improve, maybe that's something we can try to get across to our kids. Once we learn to practice it ourselves.


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Q: Trying to Update a Column in SQL Server 2008 using CASE and a Condition based on another Column Value I am trying to update a table with two columns in it based on the values in other columns.  I have a syntax error and now I slight case of misery.   So I want to update the column MONETARY based on the value in column NET_SALES and I want to update the column RECENCY based on the value in column DLP.  Thoughts?
UPDATE #CC201403B_CURRENT
 SET MONETARY=CASE
  WHEN (NET_SALES BETWEEN '75.00' AND '100.00') THEN '75-100'
  WHEN (NET_SALES BETWEEN '100.01' AND '125.00') THEN '100-125'
  WHEN (NET_SALES BETWEEN '125.01' AND '175.00') THEN '125-175'
  WHEN (NET_SALES BETWEEN '175.01' AND '250.00') THEN '175-250'
  ELSE '250+' END,
 SET RECENCY=CASE
  WHEN (DLP BETWEEN '3/1/2013' AND '5/31/2013') THEN 'DLP 10-12'
  WHEN (DLP BETWEEN '6/1/2013' AND '8/31/2013') THEN 'DLP 7-9'
  WHEN (DLP BETWEEN '9/1/2013' AND '11/30/2013') THEN 'DLP 4-6'
  WHEN (DLP BETWEEN '12/1/2013' AND '2/28/2014') THEN 'DLP 0-3'
  ELSE '' END;

A: You have the keyword SET 2 times in your query, and you do not need it. Try the following query.
UPDATE #CC201403B_CURRENT
SET
    MONETARY = CASE
        WHEN (NET_SALES BETWEEN '75.00' AND '100.00') THEN '75-100'
        WHEN (NET_SALES BETWEEN '100.01' AND '125.00') THEN '100-125'
        WHEN (NET_SALES BETWEEN '125.01' AND '175.00') THEN '125-175'
        WHEN (NET_SALES BETWEEN '175.01' AND '250.00') THEN '175-250'
        ELSE '250+' END,
    RECENCY = CASE
        WHEN (DLP BETWEEN '3/1/2013' AND '5/31/2013') THEN 'DLP 10-12'
        WHEN (DLP BETWEEN '6/1/2013' AND '8/31/2013') THEN 'DLP 7-9'
        WHEN (DLP BETWEEN '9/1/2013' AND '11/30/2013') THEN 'DLP 4-6'
        WHEN (DLP BETWEEN '12/1/2013' AND '2/28/2014') THEN 'DLP 0-3'
        ELSE '' END;

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Emergence of mechanical accounting in the U.S., 1880-1930
Accounting Historians Journal
pp. 91-124
Charles W. Wootton
Barbara E. Kemmerer
THE EMERGENCE OF MECHANICAL
ACCOUNTING IN THE U.S., 1880-1930
Abstract: For centuries, accounting was a manual process. Starting
in the late 1800s, a series of technological innovations emerged that
not only changed the way the accounting process was conducted but
dramatically changed the workplace, the workforce, the information
provided, and the accounting profession itself. By 1930, most major
US companies had adopted mechanical accounting as a more efficient
way of processing accounting information. This paper examines the
historical development and influence of mechanical accounting in
the U.S. from 1880 to 1930.
For centuries, accounting was a manual process. Whether
by quill or steel pens, entries were recorded by hand in the
journal and posted by hand to the ledger. Although there were
devices (abacus, Napier's rods) that helped with basic computa-tions,
most accounting tasks (e.g., totaling, closing entries, trial
balances) were dependent upon the mental and manual dexter-ity
of the accountant for their completion. In large organizations,
prompt access to financial information was basically impossible
due to a need to conduct extensive and time-consuming manual
searches through bound ledgers, resulting in "trial balances
[that] appeared at historic intervals, and departmental digests
and comparison reports were almost unheard of" [Leffingwell,
1926, p. 18]. "Typically, only external transactions were re-
In a vivid description of the information process before mechanization, Lef-fingwell
[1926, p. 18] writes: "The average executive preferred to keep most of his
facts in his head rather than burrow through the hand-made office encyclopedias
Acknowledgments: We would like to thank former editor, Stephen Walker,
and the current editor, Richard Fleischman, for their excellent suggestions for im-proving
this paper. We also would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for the
comments and suggestions which improved the paper significantly.
Title Emergence of mechanical accounting in the U.S., 1880-1930
Author Wooton, Charles W.
Kemmerer, Barbara E.
Subject Accounting machines -- History
Geographic Location United States
Abstract For centuries, accounting was a manual process. Starting in the late 1800s, a series of technological innovations emerged that not only changed the way the accounting process was conducted but dramatically changed the workplace, the workforce, the information provided, and the accounting profession itself. By 1930, most major US companies had adopted mechanical accounting as a more efficient way of processing accounting information. This paper examines the historical development and influence of mechanical accounting in the U.S. from 1880 to 1930.
Citation Accounting Historians Journal, 2007, Vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 091-124
Date-Issued 2007
Source Originally published by: Academy of Accounting Historians
Rights Copyright held by: Academy of Accounting Historians
Format Native PDF text file (146 KB)
Collection University of Mississippi Library. Accounting Collection
Digital Publisher University of Mississippi Library. Accounting Collection
Date-Digitally Created 2014
Identifier AHJ34-1-2007-p91
Description-Abstract Accounting Historians Journal Vol. 34, No. 1 June 2007 pp. 91-124 Charles W. Wootton EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY and Barbara E. Kemmerer EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY THE EMERGENCE OF MECHANICAL ACCOUNTING IN THE U.S., 1880-1930 Abstract: For centuries, accounting was a manual process. Starting in the late 1800s, a series of technological innovations emerged that not only changed the way the accounting process was conducted but dramatically changed the workplace, the workforce, the information provided, and the accounting profession itself. By 1930, most major US companies had adopted mechanical accounting as a more efficient way of processing accounting information. This paper examines the historical development and influence of mechanical accounting in the U.S. from 1880 to 1930. INTRODUCTION For centuries, accounting was a manual process. Whether by quill or steel pens, entries were recorded by hand in the journal and posted by hand to the ledger. Although there were devices (abacus, Napier's rods) that helped with basic computa-tions, most accounting tasks (e.g., totaling, closing entries, trial balances) were dependent upon the mental and manual dexter-ity of the accountant for their completion. In large organizations, prompt access to financial information was basically impossible due to a need to conduct extensive and time-consuming manual searches through bound ledgers, resulting in "trial balances [that] appeared at historic intervals, and departmental digests and comparison reports were almost unheard of" [Leffingwell, 1926, p. 18]. "Typically, only external transactions were re- In a vivid description of the information process before mechanization, Lef-fingwell [1926, p. 18] writes: "The average executive preferred to keep most of his facts in his head rather than burrow through the hand-made office encyclopedias Acknowledgments: We would like to thank former editor, Stephen Walker, and the current editor, Richard Fleischman, for their excellent suggestions for im-proving this paper. We also would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for the comments and suggestions which improved the paper significantly.


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Biden Demands Apology From Booker Over Segregationist Controversy
"There's not a racist bone in my body."
Bastiaan Slabbers/ZUMA
A defiant Joe Biden on Wednesday dismissed the firestorm over his repeated remarks touting the early days of his Senate career when he worked alongside segregationists. He argued that one of his most prominent critics owed him an apology.
"They know better," Biden told reporters when asked about the growing condemnation from his Democratic primary opponents, including New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, who earlier in the day had called on Biden to apologize.
"Apologize for what?" the former vice president continued. "Cory should apologize. He knows better. There's not a racist bone in my body. I've been involved with civil rights my whole career. Period, period, period."
Biden hits back at Booker over segregationist senator.
"Apologize for what? Cory [Booker] should apologize. He knows better" pic.twitter.com/xq8lLk4tTj
— Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) June 20, 2019
The controversy began Tuesday night, when Biden appeared at a New York fundraiser and nostalgically recalled an era in Washington that required cooperation with staunch segregationists. As we noted:
When he first arrived in the Senate in the 1970s, Biden recalled, he joined a Democratic caucus that included staunch segregationists, such as Herman Talmadge of Georgia and James Eastland of Mississippi.
"He never called me boy, he always called me son," Biden said of Eastland, before describing Talmadge as "one of the meanest guys I ever knew."
"At least there was some civility," he continued. "We got things done. We didn't agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished. But today, you look at the other side and you're the enemy. Not the opposition, the enemy. We don't talk to each other anymore."
Biden has offered variations on this lesson many times. He eulogized segregationist Strom Thurmond at the South Carolina senator's 2003 funeral. He wrote of his courtship of Eastland and fellow Mississippian John Stennis in his 2007 memoir, Promises to Keep. At a 2017 Alabama rally in support of now-Sen. Doug Jones, Biden described his past relationship with "seven or eight old-fashioned Democratic segregationists"—including Eastland—as evidence of a collegiality that was now sorely missed. "You'd get up and you'd argue like the devil with them," he said. "Then you'd go down and have lunch or dinner together. The political system worked. We were divided on issues, but the political system worked."
The comments sparked an uproar and drew widespread condemnation from his primary opponents. "You don't joke about calling black men 'boys," Booker said in a statement. "Men like James O. Eastland used words like that, and the racist policies that accompanied them, to perpetuate white supremacy and strip black Americans of our very humanity."
"To coddle the reputations of segregationists, of people who if they had their way, I would literally not be standing here as a member of the United States Senate, is, I think, it's misinformed and it's wrong," said Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.).
"To coddle the reputations of segregationists … it's misinformed and it's wrong," Sen. Kamala Harris says of Joe Biden's remarks on the "civility" of two segregationist senators he has worked with in the past https://t.co/Vk1r6ij9aE pic.twitter.com/Zq2TRbDaeR
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 19, 2019
"I'm not here to criticize other Democrats but it's never ok to celebrate segregationists. Never," Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said, according to Fox News.
"It's 2019 [and Biden] is longing for the good old days of 'civility' typified by James Eastland," wrote New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. "Eastland thought my multiracial family should be illegal."


Interesting news from the New Scientist which tells of a demonstration of unconscious learning and therefore knowledge that cannot be linguistically expressed.
Also of interest is a piece in Scientific American on the honesty of people being compromised after being told there is no such thing as free will. But strictly speaking this doesn't mean free will is true – it is just certain ideas might cause good or bad behavior.
[…] delusion and error are conditions of human knowledge and sensation […] Honesty would lead to nausea and suicide. The Gay Science, 107.
Guess what book I am reading?
I cautiously welcome this idea but I hold many reservations. If the present UK government has such a feeble grasp of human rights, how can they hope to advance this cause?
After reading his work "Concerning Human Understanding", I was eager to see if Hume had any insight into morality. He previously pointed out the is-ought problem and I did wonder how Hume could overcome this limitation to say anything useful on morality. His primary argument is to avoid the question of the basis of morality and describe everyday morality and how might might have arisen. Hume argues people judge morality based on public utility (utilitarianism as far as I can tell) and sentiment.
This descriptive ethical approach is partly true but also partly false. To some extent, people held in high regard have provided some service to the public. Typical is the award of titles to those providing public service. But other public figures are rewarded for being a social parasite – this applies to celebrity culture. Also not all people who make moral judgments fit into Hume's model. One man is called a freedom fighter and also a terrorist. Hume does not seem to address diversity of opinion.
Hume observes the praise given to acts of public benefit, both for their intended outcome and also for their actual outcome.
But any great enterprise requires a degree of risk. It is said "the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success". So an unsuccessful pioneer is bad, a successful pioneer is good? It seems so arbitrary – but Hume is attempting to describe how morality works in the majority of people.
This point on the majority of people's morality is not far from the truth. Epicurus claimed the purpose of life was the pursuit of happiness. Nietzsche also claimed most people made moral judgments by condemning threatening forces (ressentiment).
How can he, of all people, claim that all a group have a particular property without observing them ALL? The statement is also untrue. Many humans seem to want unhappiness by their choices that will tend to bring them pain and misery.
Again, we only have to look around us to see not all men are equally liable to sickness. Someone who is at death's door cannot be said to be equally liable to recover than someone who merely stubs his toe!
Although Hume resists making statements on what ought to be good and evil, he finally succumbs in the conclusion.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. But at least Hume is direct in his arguments.
It is trivial to observe that to condemn an act because it is "pernicious", he is saying either "you should do X because Y is true" (and violate his own is-ought principle) or even the tautological "you should not do X because X is evil (i.e. X is something you should not do)"!
Amusingly, he goes on to say anyone who disagrees with him is obviously a bit weird.
He here condemns someone's disagreement because it is "villainy or baseness" BUT what "villainy" and "baseness" are is currently the subject under discussion!
This book predates existentialism by about a century. I think Hume would have been a great existential philosopher but he did not make the conceptual leap. To that branch of philosophy, this book does not qualify as philosophy at all. I think it is more a work of anthropology since, as a description, it has some merits.
I needed this as an antidote after that book!


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Scyllarides elisabethae är en kräftdjursart som först beskrevs av Ortmann 1894.  Scyllarides elisabethae ingår i släktet Scyllarides och familjen Scyllaridae. IUCN kategoriserar arten globalt som livskraftig. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

Tiofotade kräftdjur
elisabethae


As members of the PACE Science Team we propose to pursue analytical and theoretical studies as part of the measurement suite area "Inherent Optical Properties (IOPs) of the Ocean". Our goal is to improve field measurements of particulate absorption coefficients and remote sensing estimates of absorption coefficients of phytoplankton and non-phytoplankton components and particulate carbon pools associated with these components. The main objectives are to: (1) Develop a protocol and quantify the uncertainties of a new filter-pad approach and the existing filter-pad methods to measuring the particulate absorption coefficient; (2) Develop a model to partition the absorption coefficient of seawater into phytoplankton, non-algal particulate (NAP), and colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) components with a key novel aspect of separating NAP from CDOM; and (3) Conduct a pilot study of the relationship between NAP absorption and NAP organic carbon to enable a capability for remote sensing of carbon pools associated with separate phytoplankton and non-phytoplankton components. The overall approach to address these objectives will be based primarily on the analysis of existing laboratory and field data, but will also encompass a combination of limited number of laboratory and field measurements to collect new data, and the application of remote sensing data from high spectral resolution sensor HICO. With regard to Objective 1 we will examine the filter-pad methods for determining the absorption coefficient of particles with high spectral resolution(~ 1 nm) over a broad spectral range from UV through NIR; specifically the traditional transmittance (T) and transmittance-reflectance (T-R) methods as well as the inside-sphere (IS) method which is the most recent refinement with the filter placed inside an integrating sphere. The IS method offers several advantages over the T and T-R methods, leading to improved accuracy and precision of absorption measurements. We will determine complete protocols including new optimal correction algorithms for pathlength amplification factor (which is the main source of uncertainty) and will quantify uncertainties for all three methods, benefiting the interpretation of historical data and acquisition of future data of particulate absorption. We anticipate that the IS approach will serve as the new recommended (preferable) method for measurements of particle absorption. With regard to Objective 2 we will develop a model to provide for the first time a capability for estimating the three major absorption components separately (phytoplankton, NAP, and CDOM) from the total absorption coefficient of seawater, which is derivable from remote sensing. In this development, we will use the existing quality-verified field data of absorption coefficients from various regions of the world's ocean and will expand the approach that has been successful for partitioning the absorption coefficient into phytoplankton and non-phytoplankton (NAP+CDOM combined) components (Zheng and Stramski 2013). The significance of the proposed partitioning model is associated with relationships between the component absorption coefficients and biogeochemical stocks, such as DOC, particulate non-algal and phytoplankton carbon, chlorophyll-a, as well as phytoplankton community structure and primary productivity. As a prototyping activity (Objective 3) we will examine one such unexplored link, specifically the relationship between the NAP absorption and NAP organic carbon, which will provide a basis for estimating separate pools of phytoplankton and non-algal organic carbon from remote sensing. This project will create new and advance existing algorithms for deriving ocean color data products, in particular IOPs and carbon stocks associated with separate phytoplankton and non-phytoplankton components, which will contribute to scientific goals of PACE mission to understand ocean carbon cycling and ecology.


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Sears Holdings Corp Announces More Store Closures
Sears Holdings Corp is cutting costs by any means.
The corporation's latest efforts to save a dollar, and itself, involves closing eight of its namesake department stores along with 35 Kmart locations throughout the nation.
Sears executives believe that such a move will reduce the cost of square footage the company is responsible for and, hence, lower the overall budget.
Troubles in the Past and Present
This is not the first time that Sears has experienced its share of financial heartache. In fact, the company has been dealing with a troubled budget for the past few years. The corporation's chief executive officer (CEO) Eddie Lampert and his team of officials announced plans to close 150 retail stores in January. The news came after some vendors began reducing support for Sears by taking additional measures to ensure minimal loss in the instance of the corporation going bankrupt. A few suppliers even told media in March that they were reducing shipment amounts and redefining payment terms to guard themselves against the risk of non-payment from Sears.
The troubled corporation's executives are also taking special measures, which include amending its second lien credit facility to have a maximum $500 million in borrowing cushion. Sears executives have also sold more than $200 million worth of the company's real estate to pay down debt.
What About Employees?
While the fate of employees affected by the initial 150 store closures is uncertain, a Sears spokesperson assured the press that employees eligible for severance pay would receive such compensation. The spokesperson also told media that workers affected by most recent store closures would have the option of applying for employment at stores not presently at risk of going out of business.
Those scheduled for lay-off with immediate bills may need to take advantage of various loan options available on the market. Industry professionals, Moneybanker explains that some types of loan may provide flexible repayment terms to consumers who need a short-term financial break while in between job options.
Regardless of how freshly terminated employees choose to handle cash flow problems, one thing is for certain: Sears Holdings Corp is in severe financial turmoil. The corporation's CEO claims to be in the process of re-creating the company's image through smaller-formatted stores that take on more of a boutique format moving forward. In any case, Sears is on track to meet its cost-cutting targets this year.
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Unlike the techniques used in Western massage, the Thai method uses rhythmic movement to apply pressure to the body, along with muscle stretching and compression (pressing on the muscles). Although called a massage, it has more in common with Japanese Shiatsu or Chinese acupressure systems of bodywork.
Thai massage focuses on the system of "Sen" energy lines. These are similar to the meridian energy lines of Chinese medicine, but follow the natural contours of the body, rather than the energy paths of the bodies organs.
The treatment is performed fully clothed on a special massage chair (see picture below), that is comfortable for the customer and gives the therapist easy access to the massage areas. The massage concentrates on the back, shoulders, arms, neck and head.
Although the massage chair is ideal for salon treatments, it isn't very mobile. But, unlike many other massages, this one can be done on any normal chair, making it ideal for home visits. A specialised table top version can also be used for extra comfort (see below).


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Q: Parallel For Loop with OpenMP I have problem to parallel for-loop code in OpenMP, result of parallel for-loop is different with a sequential for-loop. How to make this code parallel with same result as sequential code.
counter = 0;
#pragma omp parallel for
for(i=0; i<L; i++) {
    int sum_found = 0;
    for(j=0; j<M; j++) {
        int found = 0;
        for(k=0; k<N_SUBSET; k++) {
            if (i==0 && unsorted_arr[j*N_SUBSET + k] < intervals[i]) {
                s_prime[counter] = unsorted_arr[j*N_SUBSET + k];
                counter++;
                found++;
            }
            else if (i!=0 && unsorted_arr[j*N_SUBSET + k] >= intervals[i-1] && unsorted_arr[j*N_SUBSET + k] < intervals[i]) {
                s_prime[counter] = unsorted_arr[j*N_SUBSET + k];
                counter++;
                found++;
            }
            else if (i==L-1 && unsorted_arr[j*N_SUBSET + k] >= intervals[i-1]) {
                s_prime[counter] = unsorted_arr[j*N_SUBSET + k];
                counter++;
                found++;
            }
        }
        C[i][j] = found;
        sum_found += found;
    }
    n_intervals_len[i] = sum_found;
}

A: As some of the context of the above code is missing (esp. the variable declarations), it's rather hard to tell what is going wrong.  But here are some ideas:

*

*the loop counters j and k should be declared private, because otherwise you might have a race condition on them

*the counter++ and found++ statements are also races for updates from different threads on the same variable.  You would either have to use an atomic construct for them or use a proper OpenMP reduction to get rid of the race condition.


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A Russian-born startup based in Singapore uses AI to penetrate the mysteries of human longevity
Gero has teamed up with the National University of Singapore to conduct experiments to extend life expectancy using AI
By EWDN in Moscow September 4, 2020
Can artificial intelligence and machine learning help mankind address diseases related to ageing, and delay mortality? Gero, a Singaporean company with Russian roots, believes so. To address this biological and technological challenge, Gero has teamed up with the National University of Singapore, conducting experiments involving aged animals, reports East-West Digital News (EWDN).
These works "demonstrated mortality delay (life-extension) and functional improvements after a single experimental treatment," says Gero.
Gero believes this new drug "could enable patients to recover after a stroke" and "help cancer patients in their fight against accelerated ageing resulting from chemotherapy." Gero's platform is also used to develop drugs in other areas – including potential therapies for Covid-19.
Commenting on Gero, Dr. Nir Barzilai said that their research "provides answers to the most important practical questions and translates the received knowledge into medical technologies to combat ageing." A professor of medicine and genetics, Dr. Nir Barzilai is director and leading aging researcher at the Einstein-Institute for Aging Research in New York City.
The company has just secured $2.2mn from an investor pool led by Belarusian fund Bulba Ventures. Gero previously raised more than $5mn, including through an undisclosed seed round in May last year, which also involved Bulba.
8 years of R&D Founded in Russia in 2012, Gero initially pursued a larger goal – developing a computational technology to facilitate the discovery of small drug molecules.
"We identified a series of drug candidates in-house and via partnerships," company founder Peter Fedichev told East-West Digital News.
For example, Fedichev's team identified a small molecule inhibitor of novel HIV targets as well as inhibitors for protein–protein interactions TLR4 antagonist.
The company created a spinoff dedicated to metabolic reprogramming of neurons in excitotoxicity conditions. Another project – to be announced later this year – was developed with a leading US university, said Fedichev.
During these years, Gero also studied ways to use AI/ML approaches to tackle ageing.
This field became the exclusive focus of the startup in 2015. Gero gained access to large biobanks, aiming to develop next-gen modeling platforms for anti-aging targets and aging biomarkers identification.
"We discovered and tested multiple life-extending interventions based on the predictive capacities of our platform," said Fedichev.
While the most promising therapeutic modalities in this field are "currently under development," experiments with mice were prerequisites for future clinical trials. Such experiments were first conducted in France, then at the National University of Singapore at a much larger scale.
"A single shot provides the systemic rejuvenation and mortality delay (life- extension), which is a definitive milestone for drug discovery AI," Fedichev told EWDN.
In 2019, the team published a research paper in Nature Research Journal about the application of machine learning techniques to big omics data as a means to discover anti-aging drugs. "This became one of the most popular papers in the field of cell and molecular biology," notes Fedichev.
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In 2016, researchers from Oxford Economics and AARP estimated the volume of the annual US longevity market alone at $7.1 trillion. They forecast that by 2032 this figure will almost double to $13.5 trillion.
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Q: C++ Template Vector Operation Overload I've got a bit of a tricky proposition.
I'd like to create a template of typedef std::vector<T*> BasicVector;
This is because I'd like to overload a method that would apply to all basic vectors
sf::Packet& operator <<(sf::Packet& packet, BasicVector& p);

This doesn't quite work... How do I accomplish something like this?
typedef template<typename T> std::vector<typename T*> BasicVector;

Or maybe something like
sf::Packet& operator <<(sf::Packet& packet, std::vector<T*>& p);

A: For
typedef template<typename T> std::vector<typename T*> BasicVector;

You need alias template:
template<class T> using BasicVector = std::vector<T*>;

But you still can't pass only BasicVector to a function. It's only shortener. For std::vector< int*>, for example, you will write BasicVector< int>.
And, yes, the only way to do what you want with operator << is make operator << template
So, the complete solution is:
template<class T> using BasicVector = std::vector<T*>;

template<typename T>
sf::Packet& operator <<(sf::Packet& packet, const BasicVector<T>& v)
{
    packet << (uint32_t)v.size();

    // Or typename BasicVector<T>::value_type elem
    std::for_each(v.cbegin(), v.cend(), [](T* elem)
        {
            // *it is a pointer elem. Are you sure you need a pointer ?
            packet << *elem;
        });

    return packet;
}

A: What I was looking for is something like this. It's subtle but simple.
It's a tad messy, and would be nice if we could typedef a std::vector<T*> but that's not such a big deal.
// Packs a basic const std::vector into a packet.
template<typename T>
sf::Packet& operator <<(sf::Packet& packet, const std::vector<T*>& v)
{
    packet << (uint32_t)v.size();

    for (typename std::vector<T*>::iterator it = v.begin() ; it != v.end(); ++it)
        packet << *it;

    return packet;
}


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Шпанська мушка, також шпанська мушка ясенева, шпанська мушка аптекарська (Lytta vesicatoria) — вид жуків родини наривники. Середнього розміру металево-зелений жук, рослиноїдний — живиться листям бузку, ясена тощо. Екстракт жуків використовується в фармакології, оскільки містить сполуку , яка в малих концентраціях є афродизіаком, а в великих — сильнодіючою отрутою для ссавців.

Опис
Золотисто-зелений або металево-зелений жук, з довжиною тіла 1,1-2,5 см. Голова має глибоку борозенку. Більша частина антен, окрім перших 4 члеників, темна й матова. Надкрила довгі та м'які, на них виступають повздовжні жилки.

Життєвий цикл
Як і в більшості видів родини наривники, шпанська мушка проходить гіперметаморфоз, що складається з 8 стадій між яйцем та імаго. З яйця після 16-27 днів вилуплюється рухлива (камподеаподібна) личинка, яку називають тріунгулін. У неї довгі антени та церки, білі ноги, тіло буре. Тріунгулін шпанської мушки на відміну від рухливих личинок інших наривників не чекає на бджолу на квітці, натомість шукає гніздо бджіл родів Megachile, Osmia, Colletes у ґрунті. У гнізді перша личинка перетворюється на другу стадію — червоподібну личинку першого порядку, яка живиться бджолиним медом та пилком, тричі линяє та росте (3-5-та стадії, займають близько 15-20 діб). Шоста стадія спокою впадає в діапаузу на зимовий час, а навесні перетворюється на сьому — червоподібну личинку другого порядку, яка не живиться. Ця личинка впродовж 12-15 діб будує спеціальну лялечкову комірку та заляльковується. З лялечки за 15 діб виходить імаго, яке живиться листям рослин.

Значення для людини
Шпанська мушка може в роки масового розмноження сильно пошкоджувати листя бузку, ясена, оливи тощо. У Калабрії в 1995 році жуки завдали серйозної шкоди молодим насадженням олив.

Примітки

Джерела

 Шпанська мушка //
 Selander, R. B. 1960. Bionomics, systematics, and phytogeny of Lytta, a genus of blister beetles (Coleoptera, Meloidae). Illinois Biological Monographs, 28(i-vi): 1–295.

Всеїдні жуки
Комахи, описані 1758
Комахи Європи
Фауна Албанії


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Kühlcontainerschiffe zum Transport von Porthole-Kühlcontainern benötigen schiffsfeste Ladungskühlanlagen und Kühlstäbe, um die Kühlcontainer mit Kaltluft zu versorgen. Da dieser Schiffstyp erheblich höhere Investitionen benötigt, als Kühlcontainerschiffe für Integral-Container, wird er seit 1995 nicht mehr gebaut.

Erste Generation Kühlcontainerschiffe mit waagerechten Kühlstäben
Porthole-Kühlcontainer (Porthole-Container), auch als Isolier- oder Con-Air-Container bezeichnet, die von schiffsfesten Kälteanlagen gekühlt werden, benötigen Kühlstäbe im Laderaum. Die erste Generation der Kühlcontainerschiffe wie z. B. die Encounter-Bay-Klasse (1969) wurden mit horizontal angeordneten Kühlstäben ausgestattet.

Zweite Generation Kühlcontainerschiffe mit senkrechten Kühlstäben

Die folgenden zwei Generationen wie z. B. die Containerschiffe der Hamburg-Express-Klasse der Hapag oder die Cap-Klasse der Hamburg Süd erhielten vertikale Kühlstäbe. Diese Anordnung kam dem bordseitigen Betrieb sehr entgegen und ermöglichte eine klare Aufteilung der Container und Temperaturen. Das ergab Sicherheit auch bei kleineren Ladungspartien und verringerte die Fehlermöglichkeiten.

Technische Beschreibung der Kühlstäbe
Alle Kühlstäbe sind isoliert und in je einen Zu- und Abluftkanal unterteilt. Jeder Kühlstab hat einen Wärmetauscher. Das ist entweder ein Luftkühler (Sole-Luft) beim indirekten System oder ein Verdampfer (Kältemittel-Luft) beim direkten System. Die Luftumwälzung im Kühlstab und damit die Wärmeabfuhr in den angeschlossenen Porthole-Containern erfolgt durch einen, seltener zwei Umwälzlüfter. Wenn nur ein Umwälzlüfter vorhanden ist, wird der elektrische Antriebsmotor polumschaltbar ausgeführt, dann sind zwei Drehzahlen und damit unterschiedliche Luftvolumenströme möglich.

Die Kühlung der Porthole-Kühlcontainer erfolgte durch zwei Öffnungen an der Stirnseite, daher auch der Name Porthole-Container. Durch die untere Öffnung fließt die kalte Luft vom Kühlstab in den Container, aus der oberen Öffnung tritt die erwärmte Luft wieder aus. Die mit dem Kaltluftsystem aus den Containern abgeführte Wärme wird letztlich als Kondensationsenthalpie des Kältemittels mit dem Süßkühlwasser an das Meerwasser abgeführt. Bei Integralcontainern wird die freiwerdende Kondensationsenthalpie an die Umgebungsluft abgeführt.

Pro Kühlstab kann eine Temperatur gefahren werden. An jeden vertikalen Kühlstab können je nach Schiffsgröße und Laderaumhöhe, fünf bis neun Porthole-Container (Transvaal) angeschlossen werden. Die Porthole-Container werden auf den CON-AIR Kühlcontainerschiffen fast nur unter Deck transportiert, sie werden hier über spezielle Kupplungen an die Kühlstäbe angeschlossen. Kühlcontainer an Deck erhielten Clip-On-Kühlaggregate, die an Kühlcontainersteckdosen angeschlossen wurden.

Kühlstäbe in den Häfen

Die Reedereien in den Nord-Süd-Diensten mit hohem Kühlladungsanteil hatten gemeinsam mit den wichtigsten Häfen ab 1966/67 auch eine entsprechende Logistik aufgebaut, d. h. auch in den Containerterminals dieser Häfen waren viele Kühlstäbe vorhanden. In Deutschland waren es die Häfen Hamburg und Bremerhaven, die mit dieser Infrastruktur ausgestattet waren.
Inzwischen wurde die Porthole-Technologie auf Integral-Container umgestellt.

Literatur
 H. Linde: Zum Transport von Kühlladung in Containern an Bord von Schiffen. Hansa Nr. 24/1971
 K.-H. Hochhaus: Technische Entwicklungen von Kühlcontainerschiffen. Schiff & Hafen Nr. 10/1993

Schiffsbetriebstechnik
Kühlgerät


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Statement by The Honourable Chris Kourakis, Chief Justice of South Australia
The Governor, acting pursuant to s 10(1) of the Magistrates Act 1985 (SA), and on my advice, has suspended Magistrate Simon Milazzo. I am authorised by the Judicial Conduct Commissioner to disclose that a Judicial Conduct Panel (the Panel) has been established to enquire into complaints of misconduct made against Mr Milazzo pursuant to s 21 of the Judicial Conduct Commissioner Act 2015 (SA). Mr Milazzo's suspension will continue until the conclusion of the Panel's inquiry and thereafter will depend on the recommendation it makes.
I advised the Governor to suspend Mr Milazzo because of the establishment of the panel and because of the obligation of the Courts Administration Authority (the CAA) to provide, and to be seen to provide, a safe and supportive workplace for all of its employees.
I emphasise that the complaints are still to be investigated by the Panel. Nonetheless, it was necessary for me to balance the possible risks to, and apprehensions of, CAA employees against the right of Mr Milazzo to discharge the duties of his office. In my opinion, in the circumstances of this case, the former consideration outweighed the latter.
Mr Milazzo will continue to receive his remuneration. I do not have all of the information which will be before the Panel. Nor do I have Mr Milazzo's response to it. I am, therefore, not in a position to assess the strength of the evidence. Nor am I in a position to assess the prospect that the Panel will recommend Mr Milazzo's removal from office. That must await the conclusion of the Panel's inquiry. Accordingly, there was no reasonable basis on which I could determine that the ordinary entitlement to remuneration conferred by s 10(4) of the Magistrates Act 1985 (SA) should be displaced.
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On Immigration and the Supreme Court, Democrats Are Snookered
http://www.conradmblack.com/1408/on-immigration-and-the-supreme-court-democrats
(Monica Almeida/Reuters)
It appears to have been the Supreme Court of the United States, the most unremitting and inscrutable center of government, that has been a deus ex machina in clarifying issues for the American voters in the run-up to the midterm elections. It is almost a mnemonic feat now to recall 17 months ago when Senator Chuck Schumer was weeping on the Senate floor, in emulation, he said, of the Statue of Liberty, over President Trump's proposed curtailment of the rights of entry into America from a number of terrorism-plagued or sponsoring states. We dimly remember the immense demonstrations, the lectures from the most gaseous Hollywood air-heads, the interdiction by relatively peaceful mobs of demonstrators at major airports, as the Democrats got overreaching leftist federal district judges to strut their moment of national fame and presume to wrench control of immigration from the president, to whom the Constitution assigns it. President Trump sensibly resisted the temptation to ignore the federal district judges, imposed his policy with modifications, and was upheld last week by the Supreme Court. (Justice Clarence Thomas rightly implied in his judgment that the district courts have to be put in their place.)
As it cleared the docket for its extended summer recess, the Supremes also decided that religiously based pregnancy counseling centers will not have to emphasize the speed and convenience of abortions by Planned Parenthood. This is the beginning of the lifting of the jack-booted official foot from the windpipe of anyone who believes in any version of the God whom the Deist Jefferson believed created us all (equal). The high court completed the trifecta by affirming the right of public-sector employees who do not join the union not to have dues deducted from their pay anyway. All that is holding the discarded skeleton of organized labor together is the public-service unions and the craven predilection of governments to surrender to them. They should all be decertified, led to extinction by the teachers' unions that have reduced much of the state education systems to unruly day-care centers.
The Supreme Court capped its action-packed week with the announced retirement of unpredictable swing judge Anthony Kennedy after 30 years. (He was appointed after the great Robert Bork was virtually assassinated by Teddy Kennedy, and by Joe Biden.) It is shocking that four justices apparently agreed that foreigners had a prima facie right to enter the U.S., and the presidency surrendered its constitutional rights by this president's ambiguous comments about criteria for entry into the United States. After such a battering by the finely balanced court, it is small wonder that the next vacancy in the court became an instant call to arms (literally).
The Democratic hot-air balloon about separating illegally entering children from their parents was still hissing furiously when the Supreme Court spoke. The president's press secretary, Sarah Sanders, was evicted, ex officio, from a Virginia restaurant that appeared to be named after its bellicose owner (The Red Hen), as she then stormed across the street and demanded a competitor not serve Mrs. Sanders either. Maxine Waters, the egregious and inexplicably prosperous African-American foghorn of racist demagogy for decades from the Great Arsenal of Political Stupidity, California, called on the Democratic faithful to harass Trump supporters in all circumstances. The Homeland Security secretary was heckled and derided unmercifully in a Washington restaurant as she tried to have her dinner, and protesters then gathered in front of her house and shouted obscenities (because her department is in charge of immigration).
This was over the unmitigated nonsense about 2,300 children abandoned by illegal intruders into America, being "torn from the arms of their parents." They are fed and sheltered better than they are accustomed to in the countries they fled, and their parents had no business putting them at this risk. The United States has 2,700,000 minors separated from parents in prison; 400,000 children in foster care; 760,000 separated from parents in the military, and there are over 16,000 children in insalubrious shelters in New York City alone. This is all nonsense, like the claims after the prearranged Charlottesville riots last year over what to do with the statue of Robert E. Lee, when Trump was accused of favoring neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. The ne plus ultra of Democrats' irresistible polemical silliness, likening Trump to the imperishable Adolf Hitler, empurpled the air as the floundering hacks of the Resistance filed through the Trumpophobic networks' television studios, fulminating about the fate of the illegally transported and abandoned children. There were at least 100 protesters for every one of the well-fed and sheltered young people.
If the new Mexican president, López Obrador, adheres to his campaign proposal of not interfering with the drug cartels, he will not only be handing his northern provinces entirely over to the most vicious gangsters in the history of the Americas, he will oblige President Trump to take measures that will make the protracted debate about the wall, ICE, the immigration chain and lottery, and separation of children sublimely academic. He will force the United States to secure the border with an adequate deployment of the U.S. Army. These units, perhaps a whole division, would be better employed in this role than in squatting in their bases. There would be practically no casualties, no illegal immigrants, fewer opioids, and the country could take its time with the wall. This entire enervating debate would end. No one, not even Michael Moore as he demands a march of a million people to overturn the government, will commend the policy of allowing opioids and their purveyors to flow over the border completely unimpeded. If the new Mexican government abandons the Drug War, it will be the equivalent, in ending debate and uniting opinion in the U.S., of Pearl Harbor. And if the Democrats take abolition of ICE and de facto open borders to the voters in November, Trump will mow them down like sitting ducks.
President Trump is rising steadily in the polls, which report that, contrary to the Democrats' favorite fairy tale, only 31 percent of his supporters are males who did not attend university, according to Pew Research. His sanctimonious media opponents who maintain their vigil of alleged falsehoods of the president take a great deal more liberties with the truth than he does, and the majority of the country is more impressed that by the principal criterion for judging a public officeholder's honesty, whether he is doing what he promised prior to election to do. Here, Donald Trump has the best record of any president since Calvin Coolidge (who promised to do nothing).
One overconfident position of Trump's enemies after another has been overrun, and now they are having to face the most blood-curdling horror of all: He may durably uproot and expel them from their incumbency and legitimacy as a permanent government, and he may actually succeed as a president. This is the explanation for the mushroom cloud of Democratic disconcertion about the ambivalent Anthony Kennedy. He provided the deciding vote on the three cases mentioned that closed this session of the Court, but he was pro-choice, pro the legality of Obamacare, and as liberal as he was conservative. All of the nominees on the president's list of 25, from which the well-respected Justice Neil Gorsuch was chosen last year, are clearly qualified. All, when probed about abortion, will say something like what Circuit Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a practicing Roman Catholic with seven children, replied at her confirmation hearing, that no judge should allow personal views to get in the way of established law.
The Democrats are snookered. They won't be able to sell their goal-line defense of Roe v. Wade. It is a very inadequate decision anyway — the preeminent issue isn't the right of a woman to do anything she wants with her own body; it is when the unborn attain the rights of a person. The state should not aspire to require a woman to have a child who does not want to have one, but the only solution is a compromise on how late into a pregnancy abortions can be legal, barring extraordinary circumstances. If Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), both Republicans, bolt the administration nominee, the Democrats from generally Republican states facing the voters in November may rally to defeat the president's nominee, but he will just reap the benefit of the Democrats' obstreperousness and resubmit the name in January to more strongly Republican Senate.
Donald Trump is not everyone's choice, but calling him a sexist, racist, xenophobe, war-monger, fiscal profligate, much less someone who would betray his country to a foreign power in an election: All of this is bunk and always was. If the Democrats want to win, instead of just continuing on suicide watch, they will have to do it the old-fashioned way with real issues and a serious leader. The only such leader who is now visible is Michael Bloomberg. He gambled on being Jeb Bush's and then Hillary Clinton's secretary of state, and now he is taking the only route open: placing his own money ($80 million), on the Democrats' candidates this year, to put himself in position for a presidential race in 2020, when he will be 78. He is the best the Democrats have, and would be a competent president. A race between two flamboyant New York billionaires would be interesting, but evicting Trump from the White House will not be like falling off a log.


my project started out as an estimate.. the homeowners are very difficult people. and i am running out of money to continue this project (which the home owners kinda sort of can tell) how do i ask them for more money. about 10% more money than was estimated .. ? suggestions?
it says that if costs are too low for unseen factors or events than both parties will make a good faith effort to modify the change.
It should have boiler plate that says they WILL pay for any unforseen problems. Good faith could be they wish to, or would like to pay, but can't. Lots of wiggle room.
You also should have a section that explains the common problems your experience tells you to expect. If you have run into things that weren't in the scope of work, they should pay to fix it. You may give them a break, but if it is a big hit, don't do it for free.
Depending on the size, 10 percent shouldn't hurt too bad though if you do end up eating it. Your markups and overhead should help ease the pain. Hopefully you put in an oops factor as well.
There is absolutely nothing there for you to stand on. It gives them all the leverage. All they need to say is you should have "forseen" the problems or "factors" you're running into because they hired you to be the professional.
I'd say eat it and chalk it up to a lesson learned.
Are you saying you've allowed the job to progress and you're now BEHIND by that much? If so, all I can say is OH MY.
Get your receipts together and have a come to Jesus meeting with them. Tell them it will wreck you and your family financially if they don't divy up some more $$$. Be TOTALLY honest and forthright with them. Don't get angry or defensive. Just explain how and where the job went sideways and ask for their help.
Just understand, with that weak contract language, you don't have much to stand on at this point.
I also wish I could give you some better advice. But with the info that's been provided, it's about all I can do.
This is what we call going back to the well, and it's just about the only option you have...even though it isn't a great one it sounds like you really screwed yourself.
I don't want to come off as being insensitive here, but it seems your looking to blame everyone but yourself. We have all been in a similar situation, although usually a smaller job when we were first starting out. It seems that you got way in over your head. Your only recourse is to hope that the homeowners bail you out. You are at their mercy. The part where you hinted at walking off the job really strikes a raw nerve with me though. Imagine what that would do to your already damaged reputation.
If they choose not to bail me out. Then what should i do ?
You should hunker down and complete what was agreed upon. Do the work yourself, work long hours, get other work that pays more to take the sting out. I have been in business for 18 years. I have lost money on several jobs. I have always kept up my end of the bargain no matter what. Surely you saw this coming and should have been honest with them long ago. I know this isn't what you want to hear, but it will make you a better businessman in the long run.
Have the meeting, be honest with them. Whatever happens, express that you are dedicated to finishing the project.
Who's fault is that? As soon as they failed to provide a receipt, you should have made a hard stand. Not to mention, someone still needed to purchase the material. You may have gotten it for less, but it would not have been free! Once again, your blaming others for your fate here. Get all the numbers together, yours and theirs. Bring the original agreement and have a sit down. You are at their mercy.
Whoa there...I wouldn't let that fly either...get your paperwork together and have a serious meeting. Sounds like you have a real schmozzle on your hands.
Yep, get your numbers together and ask them for the receipts. Did they buy the material when it was stated in the contract that you would be supplying it? That is profit that they took from you Anything that varies from your contract by them can be construed breach of contract.
Specifically states. That I will be responsible for material and labor.


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